BIOGRAPHY

Jack Jano, was born in Fez, Morocco, along with his family he migrated to Israel at a young age where they settled in Shlomi. He is a graduate of the Bezalel Academy and his inventive creations delve into the realm of tombs and synagogues, incorporating factors of rusty and decaying iron, used books, melted wax, and various other materials. Through his sculptures, Jano breathes lifestyles into these various additives, infusing them with nonsecular and inventive significance.

The arch-formed sculptures he constructs combine fashions of tombs belonging to righteous Jewish spiritual figures and Arab sheiks, tough the dichotomy between 'Arab' and 'Jewish' and revealing the seen connections between them. These connections are frequently suppressed and excluded within Israeli society.

Jano's work attracts suggestions from Jewish culture, blurring the boundary between traditionalism and being considered mysticism. He describes his studio as a synagogue, where he prays for steerage to discover his truth and become unified along with his creative endeavors.

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Jano’s deployment of artifacts from the religious world is not an act of familiarization but an act of hybridization, pointing to the difficulty of placing traditionalism within a definite sociological framework. This difficulty emerges from the refusal of Jews from Arab countries to be classified by the European categories of ‘religious’ and ‘secular’. Against this background, Jano’s work succeeds in capturing the complex hybridization between religion and secularity, and not just replacing one of them with the other. In this, actually, lies its true power.

Meet Jack Jano

Born in Fez, Morocco, Jack Jano's art reflects his journey, blending diverse cultural elements through innovative sculptures that tell profound stories.